It soon came out that when lecture-hours were over, he put off his lowland dress, and went everywhere in Highland costume.
They crossed Lowland Point; no ship to be seen on the Manacles nor anywhere upon the sea.
His own officers, and the Lowland gentlemen generally, were in favour of the first plan.
Leaving the prisoners in the hands of the lowland militia, the mountaineers returned to their secure fastnesses in the high hill-valleys of the Holston, the Watauga, and the Nollchucky.
The lowland tories felt an especial dread of the mountaineers; looking with awe and hatred on their tall, gaunt, rawboned figures, their long, matted hair and wild faces.
But in some way or other a story was whispered about the many-dairied lowland that winter that Mrs. Lodge's gradual loss of the use of her left arm was owing to her being "overlooked" by Rhoda Brook.
The other lowland lakes, as, for instance, the Palics near Szabadka, and the Velencze in the county of Feher, are much smaller.
This is a lowlandregion of ancient Paleozoic rocks.
Nature is a trickster, and she spread her net and caught the Highland maid and the Lowland laddie, and bound them with green withes as is her wont.
Lowland lassie, wilt thou go Where the hills are clad with snow; Where, beneath the icy steep, The hardy shepherd tends his sheep?
Across the Firth, away they glide, Young Donald and hisLowland bride.
The behaviour of the Highland chiefs is similar to that of the Lowland barons.
It will be difficult to make those not familiar with the tone of feeling in Lowland Scotland at that time believe that the defeat of Donald of the Isles was felt as a more memorable deliverance even than that of Bannockburn.
The "assertor of Celtic nationality" was thus the son of one Lowland woman and the husband of another.
David had already granted Moray to Anglo-Normans who were now in possession of the Lowland portion and who ruled the Celtic population.
For Walter Kennedy spoke and wrote in Lowland Scots; he was, possibly, a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and he could boast of Stuart blood.
Before proceeding to a statement of the explanation to which we desire to direct the reader's attention, it may be useful to deal briefly with the questions relating to the spoken language of Lowland Scotland and to its place-names.
There were few, if any, fixed surnames in England or Lowland Scotland before the middle of the thirteenth century, other than territorial ones, derived from the feudal tenure of land.
They will also, as time goes on, migrate laterally seaward through undermining of the harder layers, and thus will be shaped alternating belts of lowland separated by escarpments in the harder rock from the residual higher slopes.
The whole lowland between the parallel ranges of hills seems to have been formed of mud of the river, mixed with sand and clay.
History tells us that all hill-tribes have exhibited a want of amiability to the civilised lowland races.
Argyll, ‘do you compare my noble Highland ancestors with these savages, or the lowland plebeians who usurped our rights?
And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied.
Our dull Lowland ears heard only the rattle of the musketry.
This is what Ramsay, Burns, and Cunningham did with the Lowland Scotch songs, and thus made them what they are--the best in Europe.
They are almost universal in the Native Irish andLowland Scotch.
Most of thelowland representatives of this flora were cryptogamous in their characters and ancestry, while some of them, and nearly all the flora of drier sites, appear to have shown the beginnings of flower production.
It is proverbial to speak of "the hardy mountaineer," and one cannot look at a lowland Scot without feeling that his stock had, in days gone by and for many centuries, run the gauntlet of oatmeal porridge and cold east wind.
Owing to the maritime position, the winter is seldom severe in the lowland districts, but spring is a trying season on account of the east winds, which often last into summer.
The hill Bhils wear nothing but a loin-cloth, their women a coarse robe; lowland Bhils wear turban, coat and waist-cloth.
Stone worship is found among them, and some lowland Bhils are Moslems, while many have adopted Hinduism.
It's ill getting the breeks aff the Highlandman is a proverb that savours very strong of a Lowland Scotch origin.
The old aversion to the "unclean animal" still lingers in the Highlands, but seems in the Lowland districts to have yielded to a sense of its thrift and usefulness[26].
But there is the case of dignity in Lowland Lairds as well as clan-headship in Highland Chiefs.
O lowland river, The joy of the hills to the waiting sea; The wealth of the vales, the pomp of mountains, The breath of the woodlands, bear with thee.
Probably equally important to the voles was the fact that debris accumulation in the lowland was approximately five times as great as in the upland and approximately 2.
Also, the ungrazed exclosure had greater yield and a thicker mat of debris than the grazed short grass surrounding it and was thus a relatively good habitat, although it did not compare favorably with the lowland type.
The association to which the voles seemed to belong was the lowland association.
In a relict area, voles were trapped in a lowland association dominated by big bluestem.
On the plateau, the lowland monsters would starve in any case.
And the folk from the lowland crowded frantically into the cave with its faint odor of having once been occupied by something else.
Here, in the first hour of their exploration, they saw no sign that an insect like the lowland ones had ever been in this place at all.
